The bill coming up to vote on freedom in the internet threatens the very kinds of social tools that have allowed the Arab Spring as well as tools that have enabled progressives to organize OWS and other movements (as well as use this technology to win in '08)

If we had the internet and DU on this date in 1963, I can only imagine the hate and threats flying around the message boards as everyone sought to affix blame on someone or some group, including the repub party. As a sixteen year older living in Boston, I do know we were not fond of Dallas and all the events surrounding the murder of JFK for years to come. That was a bad time, followed soon thereafter by the murders of MLK and RFK.

We can only imagine the vitriol that would be flying between DU-like message boards and Freak Republic and FoxPAC News-like forums 24/7.

I'm betting some repub dickhead dreamed up this threat on internet freedom, and is thinking along the same lines, and wants to "control" the situation.

OWS will grow exponentially. Once things start actually being taken down and even the zombies notice the fascism when they log on and find all their favorite websites gone and their fandom community gone, shit will get real.

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